Polar Eclipse is a fun, educational board game about climate change and our environment. Ideal for global citizens eight years to adult, the game is interactive and empowering. A curriculum guide assists fourth to eighth grade teachers who play the game in science, language arts and social studies. The game explores lifestyle, endangered species, energy use, population, global warming, sustainability and much more. Great for families and schools, the game won Dr. Toy, Best Green Product and Seal of Excellence from Creative Child Magazine. Created by Lori McDonald, of turn 4 turn llc in Park City, Utah. Includes links for kids to learn about environmental organizations, NGO's, other educational games and global environmental issues. Partially funded by Kickstarter. To survive, your species must make it into the future while getting cooler. If you get too hot, you will become extinct.

Curriculum

The game uses events, real and imagined, large and small with words and pictures to explore the future.

Introduction: Polar Eclipse is a fun, interactive and thought provoking game created to raise awareness about climate change and lifestyle choices. It is a game using time and temperature, where you play to survive, intended for fourth to eighth grade students.

Objectives:

To support learning outcomes in language arts, science and social studies.

To empower students to learn about about environmental issues through discussion.

To introduce and/or support climate change education.

To provide content with personal relevance to student’s daily lives.

To encourage an open and questioning mind toward ideas and alternative points of view.

To foster appreciation, new insights and ideally stewardship of the natural world.